Barely a year old, Vulnera arose from the rural quiet of Hallstead, Pennsylvania in 2024, pursuing a strain of depressive black metal that leans heavily on atmosphere and desolation. The isolation of small-town northeastern Pennsylvania seems to inform every note of their bleak, introspective sound.

Kansas City's Vulpecula have been operating at the intersection of black and death metal since 2020, weaving ambient textures into their otherwise abrasive framework. The name — a small, faint constellation — hints at a project more interested in negative space and atmosphere than brute force alone.

Ripping Death / Thrash Metal from San Antonio.

Omaha's Vulthoom have been practicing raw black metal since 2018, operating far from any established scene with the self-sufficient ferocity that defines the midwest underground. Their output is deliberately primitive — scraping away anything that might soften the freezing, hostile core.

Vultur Gryphus is a death metal and grindcore band from Quito, Ecuador, formed in 2007 according to Metal Archives. They released the full-length La humanidad es carroña in 2014 and followed it with the Ataraxia EP in 2019, remaining an active force in Ecuador's extreme metal underground.

Toledo, Ohio black metal project formed in 2020, invoking Slavic mythological imagery through a raw and atmospheric approach to the genre. The name references Veles, the underworld deity of Slavic paganism, suggesting a thematic focus on death, nature, and ancient spiritual darkness.

Dallas, Texas act blending the caustic filth of crust punk with raw black metal, delivering the kind of lo-fi, abrasive material that draws equally from d-beat and primitive second-wave kvlt aesthetics. Formed in 2023, they represent a scrappy underground presence in the DFW scene.

Vverevvolf Grehv is the solo project of Dapose, a musician from Omaha, Nebraska best known as a member of the electronic act The Faint, combining death metal brutality, speed metal tempos, and industrial noise with the structural logic of IDM and electronic music. Signed to Relapse Records in 2007, the project released its sole album Zombie Aesthetics in 2008, a confrontational and genre-defying record that found a place in both the metal underground and experimental electronic circles. The band subsequently toured with Skinny Puppy.

Columbus, Ohio band weaving Gothic gloom into melodic death metal, pairing the melancholic atmosphere of the Gothic tradition with driving riffs and death metal aggression. Active since 2022, they occupy the darkly romantic space between mid-era Paradise Lost and Scandinavian melodeath.